Table of Contents

OPINION
The Shadow, Buck Rogers, and the Home Computer - Gardner
The State of the Art — Helmers
Could a Computer Take Over — Rush

THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY
A Systems Approach to a Personal
Microprocessor — Suding
Frankenstein Emulation — Murray
Programming for the beginner — Herman
What is a Character — Peshka
Friends, Humans, and Countryrobots:
Lend me your Ears — Rice
Magnetic Recording for Computers — Manly

COMPUTER KITS
Assembling an Altair 8800 — Zarrella
Build a 6800 System With This Kit — Kay
More on the SWTPC 6800 System — Kay
The New Altair 680 — Vice
A Date With KIM — Simpson
True Confessions: How I Relate to KIM — Gupta
Zilog Z80 — Hashizume
The Digital Equipment LSI-11 — Baker
Cromemco TV Dazzler

HARDWARE
Flip Flops Exposed — Browning
Recycling Used ICs — Mikkelsen
Powerless IC Test Clip — Errico and Baker
Parallel Output Interfaces in Memory Address Space — Helmers
Son of Motorola — Fylstra
Data Paths — Liming
Build a TTL Pulse Catcher — Walde
Dressing Up Front Panels — Walters
Deciphering Mystery Keyboards — Helmers
A Quick Test of Keyboards — Walters
Keyboard Modification — Macomber
Serialize Those Bits From Your Mystery Keyboard — Halber
Build a Television Display — Ganff
The "Ignorance Is Bliss" Television Drive Circuit — Barbier
Build a TV Readout Device for Your Microprocessor — Suding
Let There Be Light Pens — Loomis
Build an Oscilloscope Graphics Interface — Hogenson
An Introduction to Addressing Methods — Zarrella
Interface an ASCII Keyboard to a 60mA
TTY Loop — Cotton
Interfacing the 60 mA Current Loop — King
The Complete Tape Cassette Interface — Hemenway
Digital Data on Cassette Recorders — Mauch
Build a Fast Cassette Interface — Suding
Technology Update
What's In a Video Display Terminal? — Walters
Pot Position Digitizing Idea — Schulein
Read Only Memories in Microcomputer Memory
Address Space — Eichbauer
More Information on PROMs — Smith
Getting Input from Joysticks and Slide Pots — Helmers
Logic Probes — Hardware Bug Chasers — Burr
Controlling External Devices With Hobbyist
Computers — Bosen
Microprocessor Based Analog/Digital Conversion — Frank
Add a Kluge Harp to Your Computer — Helmers
The Time Has Come to Talk — Atmar
Make Your Own Printed Circuits — Hogenson

SOFTWARE
Write Your Own Assembler — Fylstra
Simplify Your Homemade Assembler — Jewell
Interact With an ELM — Gable
Design an On Line Debugger — Wier and Brown
Processing Algebraic Expressions — Maurer
The "My Dear Aunt Sally Algorithm" — Grappel
Can YOUR Computer Tell Time? — Hogenson
A Plot Is Incomplete Without Characters — Lerseth
Hexpawn: A Beginning Project in Artificial
Intelligence — Wier
Shooting Stars — Nico
Biorythm for Computers — Fox
Life Line — Helmers

APPLICATIONS
Total Kitchen Information System — Lau
A Small Business Accounting System — Lehman
Chips Found Floating Down Silicon Slough — Trumbull

RESOURCES
Books of Interest
Magazines

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